Cambridge University Press 0521827310 - Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures Edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams Frontmatter More information POSTCOLONIAL APPROACHES TO THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES This collection of original essays is dedicated to the intersections between medieval and postcolonial studies. Ranging across a vari- ety of academic disciplines, from art history to cartography, and from Anglo-Saxon to Arabic studies, this volume highlights the connec- tions between medieval and postcolonial studies by exploring a theme common to both areas of study: translation as a mechanism of and metaphor for cultures in contact, confrontation, and competition. Drawing upon the widespread medieval trope of translatio studii et imperii (the translation of culture and empire), this collection engages the concept of translation from its most narrow, lexicographic sense, to the broader applications of its literal meaning, “to carry across.” It carries the multilingual, multicultural realities of medieval studies to postcolonial analyses of the coercive and subversive powers of cultural translation, offering a set of case studies of translation as the transfer of language, culture, and power. deanne williams is Associate Professor of English at York Uni- versity, Toronto. She is the author of The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2004). ananya jahanara kabir is Lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge, 2001) and is currently working on post-partition cultural politics in South Asia. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521827310 - Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures Edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams Frontmatter More information cambridge studies in medieval literature General editor Alastair Minnis, University of York Editorial board Zygmunt G. Baranski,´ University of Cambridge Christopher C. Baswell, University of California, Los Angeles John Burrow, University of Bristol Mary Carruthers, New York University Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania Simon Gaunt, King’s College, London Steven Kruger, City University of New York Nigel Palmer, University of Oxford Winthrop Wetherbee, Cornell University Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Fordham University This series of critical books seeks to cover the whole area of litera- ture written in the major medieval languages – the main European vernaculars, and medieval Latin and Greek – during the period c. 1100–1500. Its chief aim is to publish and stimulate fresh scholarship and criticism on medieval literature, special emphasis being placed on understanding major works of poetry, prose, and drama in relation to the contemporary culture and learning which fostered them. Recent titles in the series Margaret Clunies Ross Old Icelandic Literature and Society Donald Maddox Fictions of Identity in Medieval France Rita Copeland Pedagogy, Intellectuals and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages: Lollardy and Ideas of Learning Kantik Ghosh The Wycliffite Heresy: Authority and the Interpretation of Texts Mary C. Erler Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England D. H. Green The Beginnings of Medieval Romance: Fact and Fiction, 1150–1220 J. A. Burrow Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative Ardis Butterfield Poetry and Music in Medieval France: From Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut Emily Steiner Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature William E. Burgwinkle Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature Nick Havely Dante and the Franciscans: Poverty and the Papacy in the Commedia Siegfried Wenzel Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England A complete list of titles in the series can be found at the end of the volume. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521827310 - Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures Edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams Frontmatter More information POSTCOLONIAL APPROACHES TO THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES Translating Cultures Edited by ANANYA JAHANARA KABIR University of Leeds and DEANNE WILLIAMS York University © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521827310 - Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures Edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams Frontmatter More information cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao˜ Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru,UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521827317 C Cambridge University Press 2005 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2005 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Postcolonial approaches to the European Middle Ages: translating cultures / edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams. p. cm. – (Cambridge studies in medieval literature 54) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0 521 82731 0 1. Literature, Medieval – History and criticism. i. Kabir, Ananya Jahanara, 1970– ii. Williams, Deanne. iii. Series. pn681.p55 2005 809 .02 –dc22 2004051852 isbn-13 978-0-521-82731-7 hardback isbn-10 0-521-82731-0 hardback isbn-13 978-0-521- paperback isbn-10 0-521- paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521827310 - Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures Edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams Frontmatter More information Contents List of illustrations page vii Acknowledgments ix List of contributors xi 1 Introduction: a return to wonder 1 Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams Part I The afterlife of Rome 2 Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void 25 Nicholas Howe 3 Mapping the ends of empire 48 Alfred Hiatt 4 “On fagne flor”: the postcolonial Beowulf, from Heorot to Heaney 77 Seth Lerer Part II Orientalism before 1600 5 Alexander in the Orient: bodies and boundaries in the Roman de toute chevalerie 105 Suzanne Conklin Akbari 6 Gower’s monster 127 Deanne Williams v © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521827310 - Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures Edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams Frontmatter More information Contents 7 Turks as Trojans; Trojans as Turks: visual imagery of the Trojan War and the politics of cultural identity in fifteenth-century Europe 151 James G. Harper Part III Memory and nostalgia 8 Analogy in translation: imperial Rome, medieval England, and British India 183 Ananya Jahanara Kabir 9 “Au commencement etait´ l’ˆıle”: the colonial formation of Joseph Bedier’s´ Chanson de Roland 205 Michelle R. Warren 10 The protocolonial baroque of La Celestina 227 Roland Greene Epilogue 11 Translations and transnationals: pre- and postcolonial 253 Ato Quayson Bibliography 269 Index 288 vi © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521827310 - Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures Edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams Frontmatter More information Illustrations 1 The Meeting of the Magi, Les tr`es riches heures de Jean, duc de Berry, fol. 51, v. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. page 3 2 T-O map in a tenth-century manuscript of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae: London, British Library, MS Royal 6.c.1, fol. 108v. Reproduced by permission of the British Library. 50 3 Zonal map in a manuscript from c. 1200 from William of Conches, Dragmaticon: London, British Library, MS Arundel 377, fol. 133r. Reproduced by permission of the British Library. 51 4 Beatus map: Paris, BN MS Lat. 8878, between fols. 45 and 46. Reproduced by permission of the Bibliotheque` Nationale de France. 58 5 Hereford Map, c. 1290. Reproduced by permission of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral and the Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust. 59 6 Matthew Paris, Map of Palestine i: London, British Library, MS Royal 14.c.vii, fols. 4v-5r. Reproduced by permission of the British Library. 62 7 Matthew Paris, Map of Palestine ii: Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 2, fol. 2v. Reproduced by permission of the President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 65 8 Pietro Vesconte, Map of Palestine: Brussels, Bibliotheque` Royale, MS 9404–5, fols. 173v-174r. Reproduced by permission of the Bibliotheque` Royale de Belgique. 66 vii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521827310 - Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures Edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams Frontmatter More information List of illustrations 9 Catalan Atlas: Paris, Bibliotheque` Nationale